Abstract. Although XML is the dominant standard for publishing and exchanging data for Internet-based business applications, data is typically stored in relational or object-relati...
Abstract. XML provides a natural mechanism for representing semistructured and unstructured data. It becomes the basis for encoding a large variety of information, for example, the...
A multi-object operation incurs communication or synchronization overhead when the requested objects are distributed over different nodes. The object pair correlations (the probab...
Abstract: In order to achieve efficient execution plans for queries comprising userdefined data types and predicates, the database system has to be provided with appropriate index ...
Abstract. The suppression scheme is a solution for limited energy constraints in sensor networks. Temporal suppression, spatial suppression and spatio-temporal suppression are prop...